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Re: 'Rediculous' Customer & Critic Reviews

#4326 Post by Cinephile1 » Sat Jun 04, 2022 6:13 pm

swo17 wrote:
Sat Jun 04, 2022 6:02 pm
Israeli and Palestinian Film Recommendations

Venting moved here
Thank you, I do hope people will find the little I wrote so far to be of some interest in ways that shall allow me to elaborate further re that colossal masterpiece and others.

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Re: 'Rediculous' Customer & Critic Reviews

#4327 Post by swo17 » Sun Jul 03, 2022 4:26 am

An Amazon reviewer rated a film 3 stars and then the entire review was an explanation of his rating system:
1 stars: Couldn't watch more than 15 minutes. Unwatchable, or language not as described.
1.5 stars: Just started it, and fast forwarded to the end to get if off my, "movies we think you'll like", list permanently. I hope this cost Amazon money every time I do this!!!!!!!!!!
2 stars: Jumped my way to the end for the ending. Unwatchable, but interested in how this turd ended.
2.5 stars: I fell asleep, or closed my eyes for most of it.
3 stars: Watched it all, but not happy about it. Nothing better to do.
4 stars: I watched it, liked it well enough. Would never watch it again.
5 stars: Great moving picture show! I'll watch it again, and maybe again in a few years.

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Re: 'Rediculous' Customer & Critic Reviews

#4328 Post by therewillbeblus » Sun Jul 03, 2022 9:41 am

The lack of .5 star ratings in the good section of the scale isn’t even trying to hide that this guy wants to be a Hater

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#4329 Post by Michael Kerpan » Sun Jul 03, 2022 12:00 pm

I think all this individual's movie reviews do pretty much this same thing....

Side note: I can't review anything on Amazon anymore. I get a message that my ability to review has been blocked due to suspicious activity in my account's reviews. I rarely reviewed anything and never did anything odd. And of course sending an inquiry gets no response.

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#4330 Post by therewillbeblus » Sun Jul 03, 2022 12:10 pm

You should've reviewed stuff like the guy above and you'd've been fine- lesson learned

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#4331 Post by Michael Kerpan » Sun Jul 03, 2022 3:17 pm

Oh well, I try hard NOT to use Amazon anyway. I had just wanted to note that a 3rd party seller had done a good job.

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#4332 Post by Matt » Sun Jul 03, 2022 8:22 pm

You wouldn’t want to write a product review to leave seller feedback. You’d want to do that in Leave Seller Feedback (or Your Orders).

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#4333 Post by furbicide » Sun Jul 03, 2022 10:20 pm

therewillbeblus wrote:
Sun Jul 03, 2022 9:41 am
The lack of .5 star ratings in the good section of the scale isn’t even trying to hide that this guy wants to be a Hater
It's a pity, as I'd be curious to know what 4.5 stars means to them – based on that sliding scale, it's probably something along the lines of "Would watch again, but only if subjected to Ludovico Technique."

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#4334 Post by Michael Kerpan » Sun Jul 03, 2022 11:07 pm

Matt -- Thanks. I could "leave seller feedback" with the aid of your link.

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#4335 Post by knives » Mon Jul 18, 2022 2:41 pm

Letterboxd is filled with very silly people.
Lots of small town white male privilege when it comes to law enforcement protecting its own. Not a lot of plot beyond car theft, many assaults, false imprisonment (a.k.a., kidnapping an adult), general lack of respect of laws and law enforcement (blue lives do not matter here!) and Ron Howard trying to get with a hot chick with an amazing ass…so apparently all is forgiven by deep south conservatives.

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#4336 Post by cdnchris » Mon Jul 18, 2022 3:18 pm

Clearly I was watching The Andy Griffith Show all wrong.

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#4337 Post by diamonds » Mon Jul 18, 2022 7:15 pm

I saved this gem back before Kanopy removed comment sections. They weren't really used all that often (which is probably why Kanopy removed them), and when they were the posts would typically be short, innocuous, and complimentary since by default they were tied to the name on your library card. So it was a very funny surprise scrolling down on a film and finding these:

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The Color Wheel (2011)

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#4338 Post by domino harvey » Mon Jul 18, 2022 7:19 pm

Haha I mean, based on
enormous spoiler for the film in questionShow
popular porn searches, he’s apparently not wrong

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#4339 Post by furbicide » Tue Jul 19, 2022 8:20 pm

So we're all in agreement that "Sherry" is this person's sister, huh

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#4340 Post by therewillbeblus » Tue Jul 19, 2022 11:44 pm

Amazing, you guys made my night

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#4341 Post by colinr0380 » Mon Jul 25, 2022 4:32 pm

Oh thank goodness furbicide, I was thinking that Sherry was their dog or something like that.

And I love that blanking out the names makes it seem like it is the libraries themselves that are doing the commenting that somehow mirror their sociopolitical and geographical status. Berkeley is a bit dismissive, New York is reliably political, but L.A.? L.A. has some unresolved personal issues going on.

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#4342 Post by MV88 » Sun Aug 07, 2022 9:52 am

I learned decades ago to avoid James Berardinelli’s reviews (hard to believe now that there was actually a time when he was one of the most celebrated online film critics) for reasons that I’m sure have been covered much earlier in this thread, but my curiosity got the best of me when his name popped up as one of the critics who reviewed You Don’t Nomi, the documentary about the cult following that Showgirls has built over the years.

It appears he doesn’t understand what a cult following is:
You Don’t Nomi operates from a faulty premise, however. It wrongly assumes that, over the course of the 25+ years since Showgirls’ arrival, there has been a mass shift in popular and critical thought regarding the movie. That’s not the case. Without a doubt, Showgirls has become a true “cult classic” but, as the very term implies, its widespread acceptance isn’t mainstream. A small but devoted group of true believers have come to accept the film in much the same way that dedicated cliques have developed around the likes of The Rocky Horror Picture Show and Plan 9 from Outer Space…And, although some critics have softened in their views (or even flipped), that doesn’t constitute a majority.
The film doesn’t suggest that Showgirls has achieved mainstream popularity, in case that needed to be clarified. Where he got that impression I have no idea, so most of his review is basically implying “this documentary about a film’s cult following doesn’t work because that following doesn’t represent the majority.”

Obviously there are valid criticisms to be made of the documentary, but he genuinely seems to be confused by its mere premise and, by extension, the very concept of a cult movie.

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Re: 'Rediculous' Customer & Critic Reviews

#4343 Post by furbicide » Tue Sep 20, 2022 7:08 am

It's a big call, I know, but I think I may have found peak Letterboxd:
Edit: Welp, just found out the director is a pedo. Yea...I'm just gonna take another point off this score right here.
Needless to say, this is a review of
SpoilerShow
Clownhouse (Victor Salva, 1989)

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#4344 Post by bottled spider » Thu Sep 29, 2022 10:52 pm

Amazon review of an album by The Corrs:
While serious music fans lament the popularity of Britney Spears and other slickly packaged and marketed youth music "product," they'd also best be wary of what's happening in the adult music scene. Artists like Shania Twain and others have scored older fans by baring midriffs and making overproduced albums with one or two hits followed by a string of filler songs or, even worse, bad covers.
Filling snugly into this category are The Corrs. The cover of their live VH-1 album will likely leave you dead in your tracks, since every member of the band/family is heart-stoppingly attractive. But aside from that cover shot, the band is more a wolf in sheep's clothing. They've got nice voices, and they do seem to play their own instruments, but that's about as far as it goes.
Hits like "Breathless" are as cream puff as you can get, but the Corrs really begin to offend all musical reasoning when they start to cover classic songs like "Little Wing" and "Ruby Tuesday." The latter, complete with lighter fluid from Ron Wood, turns a golden rock oldie into an adult contemporary piece that would be excellent accompanying music as the barista at Starbucks makes your double caramel latte.
This isn't really rock music. It's the music neo-yuppies listen to as they plan their next excursion to Banana Republic. It doesn't get lumped in with all the pre-packaged glop out in the market right now, but it belongs there. Even an appearance by world ambassador and occassional musician Bono can't help it. In fact, it hurts his credibility more than it helps that of the Corrs. Fitting then, that this disc come from the folks at VH-1. Michael Bolton feels edgy by comparison.
Here's a Youtube of the Ruby Tuesday cover. Now call me a double caramel latte swilling neo-yuppy who shops at Banana Republic, but that's pretty good. I mean come on, chickyboo on the drums.

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Re: 'Rediculous' Customer & Critic Reviews

#4345 Post by swo17 » Sun Oct 02, 2022 11:00 pm

Here is a whole article devoted to explaining the last line of Chinatown, which begins by attributing the line "Forget it, Jake, it's Chinatown" to the character named Jake

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#4346 Post by Mr. Deltoid » Mon Oct 03, 2022 4:08 am

swo17 wrote:
Sun Oct 02, 2022 11:00 pm
Here is a whole article devoted to explaining the last line of Chinatown, which begins by attributing the line "Forget it, Jake, it's Chinatown" to the character named Jake
Jesus. 😲 And they say quality film criticism migrated on-line.

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#4347 Post by Roger Ryan » Mon Oct 03, 2022 11:56 am

Mr. Deltoid wrote:
Mon Oct 03, 2022 4:08 am
swo17 wrote:
Sun Oct 02, 2022 11:00 pm
Here is a whole article devoted to explaining the last line of Chinatown, which begins by attributing the line "Forget it, Jake, it's Chinatown" to the character named Jake
Jesus. 😲 And they say quality film criticism migrated on-line.
I like how Robert Towne becomes "Townshend" mid-way through the article.

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#4348 Post by zedz » Mon Oct 03, 2022 3:51 pm

swo17 wrote:
Sun Oct 02, 2022 11:00 pm
Here is a whole article devoted to explaining the last line of Chinatown, which begins by attributing the line "Forget it, Jake, it's Chinatown" to the character named Jake
Spoiler alert for the title of the sequel!

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#4349 Post by furbicide » Mon Oct 03, 2022 7:17 pm

The "About Us" page for the site gives a good indication of its ethos:
My brothers and sisters! Welcome to GroovyHistory…where we share in all the positive vibes of our past, and strengthen our humanity through our bitch’n shared history. Surprise…you may never have read about some of this stuff in history books, but will always be able to relive it on GroovyHistory!

We are a community that never gave in to “The Man”, practiced free love and peace on Earth…and always got down when there was a chance to boogie. Can you dig it!?!

So here’s the skinny on GroovyHistory.com, where you get to relive the far out culture of the 60’s and 70’s! The era of groovy was all about music, festivals, where icons were created, epic stories were told, and culture was changed forever. This community was created to keep this amazing time alive, so we can continue to celebrate the dynamite past, connect rad people all around the world, and provide a platform for you to share your own Groovy experiences!

Enjoy and we’ll catch ya later…rock on!
Very strong "I wish I was a punk rocker with flowers in my hair" vibes here

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#4350 Post by geoffcowgill » Tue Oct 04, 2022 3:05 pm

Cool! I hope GroovyHistory turns next towards exploring that landmark yet controversial concept album by The Guess Who, Quadrophenia. I'm wondering what inspired lead guitarist and songwriter Robert Towne to tap into the controversial world of mental illness. Some fans speculate it was concern for the charismatic but troubled drummer of the band, the reverend Sunny Young Keith Moon.

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